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For 7,776 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Mulholland Dr.
Lowest review score: 0 Jojo Rabbit
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,350 out of 7776
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7776
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7776
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  1. Moby Doc
    The film’s tendency to over-explain, over-intellectualize, and over-script events leaves little room for spontaneity and doubt.
  2. Insidious: Chapter 3
    In lieu of advancing a view of the dead's dominion that doesn't abide by the law of "just becauses," Chapter 3 is often content to wink at the ways the first two films spooked audiences.
  3. Citizen Koch
    Like their earlier Trouble the Water, Carl Deal and Tia Lessin portray men and women yearning for a simple place in society as they become casualties to the self-involvement of larger forces.
  4. Cuban Fury
    The film is thin on concept and limited in style, but the filmmakers have the good sense to let their characters remain playful and goofy throughout.
  5. Mad As Hell
    The doc is too enamored with Cenk Uygur and his convictions that it hews more closely to being a conventional and one-sided biographical portrait.
  6. Sunset Edge
    Writer-director Daniel Peddle's anthropological concerns never really wed themselves to a sturdy narrative bedrock.
  7. Another End
    Despite its initially familiar trajectory, Another End disarmingly and purposefully sweeps us away on a wave of apathy not unlike that which plagues its main character, challenging our sense of who we fundamentally are as humans.
  8. Pusher (2012)
    Do we really need another cautionary tale about an ambitious drug dealer dramatically falling from grace?
  9. Kandahar
    Where Kandahar is most intriguing is in the oddly even-handed depiction of both American and Middle-Eastern characters as largely exasperated professionals going about their grisly work because they’re too old to pivot to a different job.
  10. Boulevard
    Not merely rote, Boulevard is contemptible for a belief in its own stature as a daring attempt to parse through the minutia of its core relationship, where Nolan's uncertain sexuality would be terms enough to laud the film's provocative insights.
  11. Deadfall
    None of Eric Bana's mildly rousing moments clearly rise above the laborious gobbledygook that Ruzowitzky builds up through the course of the film's 94-minute duration.
  12. Bare
    Dianna Agron, suddenly inspired to let go, proves the perfect on-the-prowl foil to Paz de la Huerta's free spirit.
  13. Trap
    M. Night Shyamalan’s stylish thriller is schizophrenic in more ways than one.
  14. Death on the Nile
    Once things get moving, it’s smooth sailing to the double-shocker of a denouement.
  15. Journey to the Shore
    Kurosawa allows for a few brief flights of fancy, further abandoning realism for whimsical bursts of glowing color, but otherwise it's a humdrum slog of a voyage.
  16. Eternals
    At once bloated and rushed, Eternals suffers from frequent lurches in tempo that dispel its occasional moments of tranquil thoughtfulness.
  17. 47 Meters Down
    Like Lisa and Kate’s pendular swings between hope and despair, Johannes Roberts’s film can’t help alternating between the genuinely terrifying and the just plain dumb.
  18. The United States vs. Billie Holiday
    The film finds its purpose most pointedly when it zeroes in on the unambiguous relationship between Holiday and “Strange Fruit.”
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Weird World of Blowfly
    If The Weird World of Blowfly is any different from other documentaries about eccentric characters from music-world obscurity, it's in the contentious topics Clarence touches on in his cantankerous speech.
  20. Crimes of Passion
    Russell’s wild style and shameless exhibitionism places it on a par with the contemporary work of Brian De Palma in terms of its vicious satire of ‘80s kitsch and repression.
  21. Maggie
    Its only claim to uniqueness becomes running the standard zombie narrative through a Hallmark-card filter.
  22. VHYes
    The film settles much too comfortably into the well-trodden footsteps of other works.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Woman on the 6th Floor
    It plays everything safe, keeping all its edges rounded and its lips sealed in territory ripe for sociopolitical commentary, making even The Help's glib depiction of African American servitude seem nearly honest.
  24. My Worst Nightmare
    The hilarity of the film creeps up slowly and from every angle, not through the facile immediacy of short-lived laughter.
  25. London Boulevard
    A movie like this lives and dies by its finer details, and London Boulevard screws up by applying the same broad brush to its entire cast, meaning every character gets the same amount of shading.
  26. Bobbi Jene
    Elvira Lind's film is closer to an advertisement for Bobbi Jene Smith than a film about the contemporary dancer.
  27. Murder on the Orient Express
    Once the film gets to the Orient Express, it's as if Kenneth Branagh is always itching to get off of it, even having Hercule Poirot at one point look over a list of names while standing atop the train for no discernible reason, except perhaps to enjoy the way the sun peeks out between two distant mountain peaks.
  28. Storage 24
    More chilling than the horror of the alien's close-quarters assault is the rank misogyny that more than offensively underscores the Melrose Place-grade human drama.
  29. Eleanor the Great
    Scarlett Johansson’s direction keeps things simple and intimate in a way that Tory Kamen’s overambitious screenplay doesn’t.
  30. Putin's Kiss
    Fails to dig too deep into the politics or inner workings of the new right-wing youth movement it profiles, remaining content with simplistic conclusions about pro-Putin thuggery.
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